ALEXANDER, Major General Sir James Edward, K.C.L.S., F.R.S.E. 1803–1885

Arrived New Zealand about 1860. Was in charge of the outposts on

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the Waikato while the military road from Auckland was being built, then took part in the Waikato and Taranaki campaigns. Drawings made of Bream Head and of the Sugar-loaf Islands were used for illustrations in Illustrated London News 1863. Alexander had already published Incidents of the Maori War 1860–1861 and in 1873 published Bush Fighting Illustrated by Remarkable Accidents and Incidents of the Maori War in New Zealand with a map plan and woodcuts. He had also published Campaign in Caffreland and Exploration in Africa and America and was then (1873) living at ‘Westerton’, Bridge of Allan, New Brunswick.